Anja Salomonowitz (born November 12, 1976) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter, specialised on documentary films with political or social background.
[>>]Source: WikipediaAnja Salomonowitz (born November 12, 1976) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter, specialised on documentary films with political or social background.
Leben und Wirken
Anja Salomonowitz was born in Vienna and started to study dramatics and film theory at the University of Vienna, but broke the study to change to the film academy, based in the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. There she specialised on the field of studys directing and cutting. As a cutter she attended also the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen (college for film and TV) in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany.
One of her early works was a short film, made out of four commercials against racism: get to attack. Her first movie which started in the cinemas was the 53 minutes documentary film Das wirst du nie verstehen (2003). There she confronted herself and her family with their family's history. Her Jewish grandaunt was in a concentration camp, her nanny joined the socialistic resistance and her grandmother "did nothing".
In her one minute long, shortest short film Codename Figaro - as a contribution to the "Mozart year 2006" - she raises the ironic and politics critic question if "Le nozze di Figaro" actually was a fictitious marriage.
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